In a 2013 speech to the right wing Heritage Foundation, newly announced presidential candidate Ted Cruz sang the praises of Jesse Helms, the notoriously racist Senator from North Carolina. Cruz said Helms was the first politician to whom he ever donated money, and ended his fond reminiscences with the statement, “We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the US Senate.”

Remember, though — Ted Cruz can’t be a racist because his best friend in college was black.

One of the most dishonest, creepy, and fanatical Republicans in Washington, Ted Cruz, is going to be the first presidential candidate for the wacko wing of the GOP (which is pretty much the entire GOP now), and of course, he’s going to announce it in a speech at Jerry Falwell’s religious right diploma mill, Liberty University — where young Earth creationism is taught in biology class.

Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate.

The senator is scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, where he is expected to declare his campaign for the presidency.

You may recall this comparison photo that made the rounds on social media last year, showing a Tea Party gun lover named Holly Fisher next to her jihadi counterpart. Flag? Check. Holy book? Check. Semi-automatic rifle? Check.

Bottom feeder and noted misogynist stalker Chuck C. Johnson has a BREAKING EXCLUSIVE story today about Ms. Fisher. Yes, folks, this time he’s smearing a Tea Party heroine. This probably isn’t going to end well for the Ginger Avenger.

The conservative woman behind several viral photos cheated on her combat veteran husband repeatedly & then lied about it, Gotnews has learned.

Conservative social media phenomenon Holly Fisher repeatedly insisted to Gotnews editor-in-chief Charles C. Johnson that she had not cheated on her husband but broke down and admitted the affair on Facebook to her supporters after our interview.

It’s one of the grossest smear pieces yet from this twisted freak. And Fisher’s husband is furious at him.

There’s a lot more of this in Johnson’s Twitter feed, from conservatives who seem to be suddenly realizing that the guy they pimped and championed when he was attacking their liberal enemies is really an unethical loose cannon who’ll do and say anything to drive clicks to his site. He’s in slow motion self-destruct mode.

No Country For Old Hatersre: #127 electrotek It would destroy their self-image as heroes if they realize that they're just the other side of the far-right-wing religious-extremist coin. Conservatism is all about fantasy role-playing. It's made up of right-wing grifters and their willfully-ignorant marks. ...

Well, the Republican Party has chosen the person they think most represents their party to give the State of the Union response, and it’s hog-castrating Tea Party extremistJoni Ernst.

Because nothing says rebranding like a loon who ran on the slogan “Make ‘em squeal!”

At this point anyone who follows politics could probably write Ernst’s speech in advance; they always say the same things. The only real question is: will Joni brandish her ceremonial hog castrating device at this shindig?

Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter in the Republican Party’s continuing descent into far right bad craziness.

Yesterday, a small group of right-wing demonstrators gathered in front of the White House at a rally scheduled to coincide with the visit of a number of sheriffs who were in Washington, D.C., to protest President Obama’s executive action on immigration.

One activist who was filming the rally spoke to several attendees who said they wanted to lynch Obama.

Among the remarks picked up by the cameraman:

“Hang the traitor!”

“Hang the lying Kenyan traitor!”

“We’ve got rope.”

“Plenty of trees in the front yard, wouldn’t be the first one hung on one of them trees.”

“Whatever happened to those good ol’ days?”

“Don’t stab his neck, you watch him choke to death.”

“He’s just biding his time until Satan takes him home to where he belongs.”

I knew things had swung to the radical right in Nevada, but the Reno News & Review has a jaw-dropper of a report today on the Republican picked by the GOP to be speaker of the state assembly, Ira Hansen — a paleoconservative caveman who wrote a column for years for the Sparks Tribune, laying out his stunningly bigoted and hateful views on quite a variety of subjects.

On African Americans:

Hansen has said he keeps a Confederate battle flag on the wall where he writes his columns. “I fly it proudly in honor and in memory of a great cause and my brave ancestors who fought for that cause,” he wrote.

Hansen tends to use the term “Negro” and often does not capitalize it. In one column, he described Washoe Republican Sen. Maurice Washington (whom he supported) as black but in the same column called President Obama (whom he opposes) a “negro”—lower case.

On Martin Luther King:

Hansen has repeated, legitimately, the well known stories about Martin Luther King’s plagiarism as a student, using them to try to discredit his later work. On several occasions, including in King Day columns, Hansen has also cited as factual rumors about King’s private life about which nothing reliable is known, particularly given the efforts of the FBI to plant misinformation about King with journalists. Hansen provided nothing like chapter and verse to prove King’s private life unsuitable, relying on the notion that it is something we all “know.”

Hansen wrote, “King’s private life was trashy at best. … King Jr. is as low as it gets, a hypocrite, a liar, a phony, and a fraud.” He opposed an effort to name a Paradise Park community center for King on the grounds African-Americans had begun rejecting him in favor of Louis Farrakhan, a black trend that has not been recorded elsewhere.

On “educational slavery:”

In an attack on public education and teacher unions, Hansen wrote, “The Democratic coalition would split asunder if the NAACP & co. actually promoted what black Americans truly desire—educational choice. The shrewd and calculating [black] ‘leaders’ are willing to sacrifice the children of their own race to gratify their lust for power and position. The relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies. For American blacks, being denied choice and forced to attend the failing and inferior government school system is a form of involuntary servitude. Let’s call it what it truly is—educational slavery.”

On real slavery:

He wrote that African-Americans are insufficiently grateful for being given their freedom: “The lack of gratitude and the deliberate ignoring of white history in relation to eliminating slavery is a disgrace that Negro leaders should own up to.”

We’re well into Stormfront territory here. And this is just the beginning; Hansen has also spewed all manner of hatred at gays, Latinos, women, you name it. Basically, if you are not a white male far right whack job, Ira Hansen despises you. And maybe even then.

sagehenre: #245 Skip Intro Funny how the "liberty" "tyranny" "government overreach" folk are not the least bit bothered by pre-emptive martial law when it's happening to people they don't like anyway... Principles. //

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